The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-04

cfedlt which the lease would give them.
HOW THE STATE HAS BEEN CHEATED.
THE Georgia railroad pays a dividend of
IL per cent ON the investment The Central
pays ID per cent Atlanta and West Point
pays, ann told, 20 per cent on original stock.
The State road feeds them all. Has three
Tunes the business and pays per cent on tho
original stock.
"When Governor Brown quit twisting his
pull yearimg's caudal appendage. Il must be
careful as to terms ms his protege, DR.. Tucker
wishes TO put me in the changing for abiding
to very small dogs tail in this assembly,
and rose to the gubernatorial chair)-he called
on DIR. Lewis to make the old road to hum
that road so dear to every Georgians heart
must git up and git AS the governor reached
out for every successive term he would pinch
Dr. Lewis and Major Rowland for little
more grape, CAPTAIN Bragg, to be able to reach
the ambition of his heart. He told Judge
Wright of Rome, after the war that the
State road ought and could be made to yield
100000 per annum yet he gobbled it up and
paid just half that sum- which he now pro-
poses to shrink up ana clutch out of it two or
three millions as 'betterments.'
HOW THE LION RoARED.
"Pay me those bettements, or I'll scrape the
paint off the depots!
Pay my demands and my son Julius's fees
Or III run off all the cars!
Pay for the road bed, tracks, ballast, wire
fences, etc, or I'll smoke you out!
-, Pay for all the engines, or I'll run them into
Pay for all the cars, or I'll break up the last
one of them!
"Now, you little creatures in the legislature,
III not address you line on the subject, but
III shake my list at your governor, and you
may run to sheteri - -.
Small fry, as | believe you to be, those can
not control by and through lobbyists, or as l
did once, by giving fat places to overy old fossil
that had a son or son-in-law in the body, I'll
skeer to death!
NRaw haad aud I,1OoJu bonaSI Cat o,,4 o,,,l
let me have my own sweet wayl
Fee, TO, fun, II smell the blood!" Yes,
want more money! l want to get better
grip on it! I'm your bossl bossed Bullock,
and bossed the balance; and the state of
Georgia owes me living, and intend to have
il! Be careful, boys! Be careful of your
money! Don't buy mothers son of them
drop of liquor with my money! Let me get
my paw on the treasury, and keep them sober,
or p'raps they won't skeer so easy
"My indignation is fatigued when / con-
slider the facts about this road. Last Saturday
over 80 freight cars left Atlanta for Chatta-
nooga averaging over $50 net. Daily for the
past twelve months an average of 200 freight
cars leave Chattanooga for Atlanta, and At
lanta for Chattanooga, realizing to tho road
over $4,000 per month from freight alone.
"The passenger traffic is 100000 per annum,
and transporting the United States mails
PAYS THE RUNNING EXPENSES
of the passenger trains. The business of the
j
to the road will not be demecia-
ted by competition. Take the iron
and manganese business from Barlow
cbupty alpne not known when The lease was
made. averages So 800 per month, and is won
derfully increasing. rye l H'
''Fifteen freight cars loaded with granite
from Stone Mountain ana Lithonia pass over
the road dafly. This is new and growing
business. 1917" - Afg -
1.-The marble business of Cobb county nets
$4,000 per month,
"Talk about the Goodwater or Sweetwater,
or any other competing lines! The old giant
laughs ut them. he is master of the sur
roundings. The coal business is not so large
because Governor Brown
WILL NOT ADMIT COMPETING COMPANIES
to his Dade coal mines. / admire him for
what he has done to advance our iron inter-
ests, but if he attempts to touch one of tho
rails of the road could prosecute him quicker
than you can say Jack Robinson. Laughter.
I'm ten years it viii require all the cars now
on the road to transport the coal alone.
HOLD ON TO THE ROAD.
'If was dying, my last words would he,
Don't sell the State road Hold on to it
through evil as well as good report Hold on
to it and you will be Independent Of sharpers,
the lessee, TO Brown the patriot.
Mr.. GIenn's Views.
Mr.. Glenn--"While the issue in law is not
the sale or lease of the road, it is 80 in fact.
not the proper one. Both reports are radically
wrong under the present surroundings. Tho
value of the road will be determined by the pres
ent surroundings and in the wrong way The
nearer you get to the value of the road at tho
time of leasing the better. The next legisla-
ture will have ample time to adopt plan
The legislature will be in session in 1890.
Should the lease expire before final action we
will have the road, and the legislature will be
competent to deal with it.
ic
The facts &C out to the world. The lessees are
in possession. A claim for betterments is
pending which they propose to collect by run
ming the road down. Men hostile to the road,
but who want it, are in possession of it. A
false standard of value is set up, and bids for
sale or lease viii be slight.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE THEN?
"Let the legislature make distinct, straight
forward disposition Of the matter one way or
; the other. We should file plea in behalf OF
the people. Action should be taken to pre-
serve and secure the property of the state
from being despoiled."
Huff's Center Shot.
Mr.. Huff offered this amendment to the ma
jOrity report Resolved, That at no time nor
under any circumstances shall the Western
and Atlantic railroad ever be sold or leased to
any person or company of persons until all
questions of dispute as to betterments between
the state and the present lessees shall have
BEEN fully and completely disposed of SO that
when the railroad property il offered for sale
or lease the state shall be in a condition to
offer the same entirely free from all circum-
stances of every kind and character. If no
such settlement can be made between the state
and the present lessees before the
present lease is expired. then no sale or new
lease shall be made until the expiration OF the
present lease, at which time the state will
come intotull and complete possession and con-
troll Of the road and then be prepared to sell or
lease the same to the best possible advantage,
Facts From MIR, Watts.
"Mr. WattsI wish to state some facts about
the present condition OF the State road. When
ever a man has property to dispose Of he will
first ascertain if he has a just title to what no
proposes to sell, its true value, earning capac-
ity and future prospects.
SIN its present condition the State road
IS NOT FIT FOR SALE OR LEASE,
for by series of incrustations il has accumu-
lated property of no use 10 its operations. In
Tennessee it has property worth $l0j6,0 900 and
in Georgia 100000 of property. The great
bulk Of this property has not added one cent to
Georgia in the last 40 years.
owe should skin the road Of this surplus be-
fore offering it for sale or lease.
81 am opposed to the sale.i The railroad was
constructed for a two-foid purpose-hnancial
and political. The acumen OF A. II. Stephens
gave us the road at time, which II not seized,